iOS 11.3 Coming This Spring With New Animoji, Vertical ARKit, Health Records, Battery Info, and More

[KoolAid-Drink]

Why would it be any different to the situation with iCloud (or any IMAP) email? You can apply exactly the same logic to that, but it still exists.

And photos. iCloud Photo Library - all our photos are in the library, on iCloud. No different than messages. Annoying that Apple has delayed, delayed, delayed this feature... I really need/want it. It's annoying to have to keep restoring from backups just to keep my iMessage history.

 

[Nicksd84]

At some point, notifications alone will make people switch to Android

I’m not an Apple pitchfork person. There’s things I certainly like about iOS and the Apple ethos. However notifications seem to be better on Android. Alas, I am a slave to iMessage so I’m stuck for the foreseeable future.
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Music videos in Apple Music? I'm actually kind of excited about this. Though perhaps it should be called Apple Multimedia at that point.

Also, I don't understand what the hoopla is about iMessages in the Cloud? They're synced across all devices anyway (except for my SE without a SIM in it for some reason).

They are synced push but that’s it. So when I delete a two factor text message on one device it’s not deleted on all.

Second I am a message hoarder. I can’t start from fresh on my iPhone because there’s no way to restore messages without a backup. iMessage in iCloud would solved that.

 

[MikeKlump]

Havent there always been music videos in Apple Music

 

[Dr.SL]

.... new Animoji on the iPhone X....

C'mon Apple, those emoji & animoji attacs on customers are irrefutable evidences of strong dementia in the top management.

 

[ErikGrim]

Havent there always been music videos in Apple Music

There’s been music videos in iTunes since the early 2000s.
[doublepost=1516838304][/doublepost]AirPlay 2 is in 11.3, but not enabled in beta 1.

 

[newyorksole]

It's more when you delete a message that it will be deleted on all your devices. That's iMessage in the iCloud. Not the other way around like you stated. Apparently most of the people don't get this. It's about deleting messages.

Yeah that could be difficult to accomplish. True.

 

[C DM]

.... new Animoji on the iPhone X....

C'mon Apple, those emoji & animoji attacs on customers are irrefutable evidences of strong dementia in the top management.

Seems like focusing on those minor things and just those and not seeing anything else kind of fits with that as well.

 

[Kram Sacul]

Animojis are cool. Skulls are cool. Everyone wins here. Stop bitching.

 

[the johnmc]

Seems like focusing on those minor things and just those and not seeing anything else kind of fits with that as well.

Or maybe Apple has a graphics design team whose entire focus is working on graphical elements of the OS and not coding or product development.

 

[C DM]

Or maybe Apple has a graphics design team whose entire focus is working on graphical elements of the OS and not coding or product development.

That's essentially part of the point.

 

[the johnmc]

That's essentially part of the point.

They've had a graphical design team for years. This is nothing new. Let that team do what that team is good at. Adding graphical elements to an already existing framework (the data used to authenticate FaceID) is trivial. Everyone harping on about "Durr durr durr why all the new emojis durr durr" kinda miss the point that these things already exist and are being skinned. Animoji was probably put together initially to demonstrate/test FaceID. Someone in management likely saw it and thought it would be popular with the general/non technical public, which it is, and figured that the graphics team could polish it into a neat feature. Emoji are part of the Unicode spec. In order to support Unicode, you have to support emoji. Someone has to design those emoji and, oh my goodness, there's a graphics team who can do exactly that.

 

[C DM]

They've had a graphical design team for years. This is nothing new. Let that team do what that team is good at. Adding graphical elements to an already existing framework (the data used to authenticate FaceID) is trivial. Everyone harping on about "Durr durr durr why all the new emojis durr durr" kinda miss the point that these things already exist and are being skinned. Animoji was probably put together initially to demonstrate/test FaceID. Someone in management likely saw it and thought it would be popular with the general/non technical public, which it is, and figured that the graphics team could polish it into a neat feature. Emoji are part of the Unicode spec. In order to support Unicode, you have to support emoji. Someone has to design those emoji and, oh my goodness, there's a graphics team who can do exactly that.

You are preaching to the choir, as they say.

 

[MacTiki]

Or maybe Apple has a graphics design team whose entire focus is working on graphical elements of the OS and not coding or product development.

Before there was Mac OS X there was NeXTSTEP. The team that was involved in the development of NeXTSTEP was small very small. Leading the way in the development of the NeXTSTEP UI was Keith Ohlfs.

Sadly Keith died in 2016.

https://www.networkworld.com/articl...cos-pinwheel-much-more-passes-away-at-52.html

With regards to macOS maybe Apple should consider rekindling the excitement and innovation that came from the days of NeXTSTEP.

If you every used a NeXT system or worked for or with NeXT Inc. you understand what I am talking about.